“…Transport of laundry, waste, clothes, recyclables, sterile goods, samples, and medicine in practice [4,5,[13][14][15] Support of cleaning and disinfection processes [15] MAS assist the scrub nurse or circulating nurse during patient visits or patient handling [2] Stationary assistance systems such as surgical robots that support minimally invasive surgery are in daily use in practice [12,16,17] Enhancing stationary assistance systems such as robotic microscopes, robotic armrests, and robotic scrub nurses are currently being researched [4] Remote assistance of surgeons during surgery is being researched [3,12,18] Simulation of MAS as a circulating nurse is being researched [1,19,20] To summarise, MAS in hospitals assist with operational tasks such as fetching and bringing material [4,5,[13][14][15], cleaning [15], and patient handling [2]. In the operating theatre, stationary operational tasks during surgery are used in practice and are being enhanced in research.…”